| Historical composition of the Northern Ireland Executive | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly • Executive | Date | Event | Mandatory coalition appointments: Executive Office |
Departments | Cross-community appointment: Justice |
D'Hondt method allocation | |||||||||
| FM & j.m. | dFM & j.m. | ||||||||||||||
| UUP (U) | SDLP (N) | DUP (U) | SF (N) | Alli. (O) | Vacant | ||||||||||
| 1st A. • 1st E. | 1998 Jul 1 | formation | UUP | SDLP | 10 | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2002 Oct 14 | dissolution | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 3rd A. • 2nd E. | 2007 May 8 | formation | DUP | Sinn Fein | 10 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2010 Apr 12 | devolution | " | " | 11 | Alliance | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2011 May 11 | dissolution | 11 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 4th A. • 3rd E. | 2011 May 16 | formation | DUP | Sinn Fein | 11 | Alliance | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2015 Sep 1 | resignation | " | " | 11 | " | R | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2015 Oct 20 | reallocation | " | " | 11 | " | R | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2016 May 16 | dissolution | 11 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 5th A. • 4th E. | 2016 May 26 | formation | DUP | Sinn Fein | 8 | Independent (U) | R | R | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2017 Jan 16 | dissolution | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| TBD • 5th E. | TBD | formation | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||
| FM, dFM = First and deputy First Minister; j.m. = junior minister; R = resigned or refused posts entitled to under the D'Hondt method | |||||||||||||||
